Different Figures of The Big Other

Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about Jacques Lacan's shifting theory of the big Žižek discusses hysteria as the birth of subjectivity, the logic of transgression, Hollywood censorship, film theory, Antigone, and paternal authority in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Sigmund Freud, Mladen Dolar, Jacques-Alain Miller, Louis Althusser, Jean Laplance, René Descartes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Bertolt Brecht and Georges Bataille focusing on desire, death drive, perversity, sexual difference, capitalism, fantasy, love, amor fati, necessity, Maoism, fidelity and corruption.